Miami: Crew rescuers recovered a body but hopes dimmed for 38 others who were lost at sea during the weekend of the upturned ship of the coast of Florida in an incident which is treated as a human smuggling attempt that was unexpected, US Coast Guard said on Wednesday.
Search and recovery operation extends through the second full day on Wednesday as the Coast Guard intercepted the boat reported a separate screen from the Bahamas were overloaded with 191 Haitian migrants were believed to be heading Florida.
Both incidents underline the surge of migrants who find their way to Florida in flimsy vessels through the Caribbean by way of the Bahamas, a known hub for human trafficking, who was born in the sea.
The coast guard said in a Twitter post that his teams would “continue to search throughout the night for those who lost” the ship was reported by a victim who is always upside down in rough seas on Sunday morning.
Spokesman for the coast guard, small officer Jose Hernandez, acknowledged late Wednesday that the chances of finding anyone else alive on the wane, but that officials would “reassess” the situation on Thursday morning.
Survivor, was found to cling to the upturned ship on Tuesday, told authorities after his rescue that he is one of the 40 people aboard when it left the Bimini Islands Bahamas, about 50 miles (80 km) east of Miami, on Saturday night.
, The coast guard said.
It went down the next morning about 45 miles (72 km) east of the Fort Pierce Inlet, off the Atlantic coast of Florida, about halfway between Miami and Cape Canaveral.
According to the victim, no one was on board wearing a life jacket.
Their nationality has not been released.
Haitian migrant boat crossroads but have grown more frequent when the Caribbean island nation facing economic and political crises, as well as kidnapping gang related.
“We suspect that this is a case of human smuggling, because these events occur in a normal route for smuggling,” Coast Guard Commandant Jo-Ann Burdian said at a news conference Miami.
Survivor Survived Survivede was first spotted around 8 am on Tuesday by a tugboat crew members privately viewed “There is someone who is quite confused on the ship,” said Joshua Nelson, Manager of Fleet Operations for Jacksonville of Signet Maritime Corp., which has a pull.
“We draw a very large barge that is approximately 2,500 feet behind us, so (taking) a little finesse to quite close to the ship and do not cause waves to drop him,” Nelson said in a telephone interview.
The crew immediately alert the coast guard, Nelson said.
The accident coincided with a small craft advisory is posted for the region warning strong winds and heavy seas, according to the Coast Guard.
Thirty-two others were rescued from the boat that capsized west of Bimini, last Friday in an effort to more migrant intersection.
“The waters of the Florida Straits north can be very dangerous,” said Burdian.
“In cases like this, smaller ships, carriers are overloaded, inexperienced, at night in bad weather can be very dangerous.” As of Wednesday morning, Coast Guard Cutter, a team of helicopters, aircraft search and air crew US Navy who flashed an area that covers more than 1,300 square miles (3,367 sq km), about the size of Rhode Island, between Bimini and Fort Pierce Inlet, a word Statement Coast Guard.
The incidence of inverted or interdried vessel filled with people, many of them Haitian or Cuban who tried to reach the United States, it is not uncommon in the waters of Florida.
“There (have) an increase in human smuggling organization’s” Over the last year, Anthony Salisbury, special agent in charge of Homeland Security Investigations office in Miami, said in a telephone interview.
“These human smuggling organization, you are dealing with criminals,” said Salisbury.
“They really prey on migrant communities.” May, 12 Cuban migrants died and eight were rescued after their boat flipped from Key West, Florida.
At least 557 Cuban migrants and more than 800 Haitians have been picked up in the Mediterranean by the Coast Guard since October, in addition to nearly 7,400 Cubans and 3,900 Haitians fell during the previous five years, according to the Agency.
One body was found, 38 was still missing from the reverse migrant ship from Florida
